Visitors are invited to sign the ‘Pono Pledge’ and share it via social media
HILO (AP) — The Big Island visitors bureau and Hawaii County have launched a campaign that aims to create a more conscientious tourism industry on the Big Island.
The Island of Hawaii Visitors Bureau ...

By CALEB JONES
The Associated Press
HONOLULU — The recent eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has quieted to the point that federal officials are ready to allow people back to the dramatically changed summit crater, which has quadrupled in size, lost all of its lava and collapsed ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu Police Chief Susan Ballard says an officer shot and killed a man who pointed a gun at him.
Ballard says officers knocked on a door of apartment near Waikiki Thursday to execute a drug search warrant. One of the occupants opened the door and officers then broke down ...

HONOLULU (AP) — The state and Hawaii County are asking the 9th Circuit of Appeals to reconsider a ruling that said Hawaii’s legal requirement for getting a license to carry a firearm in public violates the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
A three-judge panel reached that ...

HONOLULU (AP) — The wife of a former Honolulu chief is resigning as a deputy prosecutor nearly a year after a grand jury indicted the couple on corruption-related charges.
The Honolulu prosecuting attorney’s office issued a one-sentence news release Monday: “Katherine Kealoha has ...

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER
The Associated Press
HONOLULU — The retired U.S. judge who was tied up after a man allegedly shot and killed three people in Honolulu in 2006 says he’s satisfied with a ruling that dismisses all charges but recommits him to a psychiatric hospital.
Capping ...

HILO — The damage to Hawaii County facilities from the flooding caused by Hurricane Lane’s torrential rains totaled about $20 million, an official said.
The figure is only for county infrastructure and doesn’t include damage to state infrastructure such as schools and highways, county ...

HILO, Hawaii (AP) — Big Island officials are considering adding language to the county’s ethics code requiring officers and employees to provide the public with information that is accurate and factual.
The county council voted last week in support of the measure, requiring county ...

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER
The Associated Press
HONOLULU — The vast majority of Hawaii’s state-regulated dams are considered to have “high hazard potential,” according to a 2017 infrastructure report by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
One of the 124 dams given that ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Residents of a Hawaii subdivision were able to return to their homes Saturday, more than two months after flowing lava and volcanic gas from Kilauea prompted county officials to evacuate the area. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports entry into Leilani Estates in Hawaii County ...

KAILUA-KONA (AP) — A Big Island couple who believed they were married 36 years ago officially tied the knot after learning of a documentation mix-up.
Randy and Leigh Mitchell were legally married at the Kealakekua courthouse last week, though their wedding was in February 1982, West Hawaii ...

HILO (AP) — Gas emissions from Kilauea volcano have reached their lowest level in more than a decade as the Big Island sees a lull in volcanic activity.
Sulfur dioxide emission rates have dropped to less than 1,000 tons per day between Kilauea’s summit and its lower east rift zone, ...

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Engineers set to sea Saturday to deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world’s largest garbage patch in the heart of the Pacific ...

HONOLULU (AP) — An Army investigation into a fatal helicopter crash found the pilots became disoriented during nighttime training off Hawaii last year. All five soldiers on board were killed in the Aug. 15, 2017, crash.
The pilots experienced “spatial disorientation,” which is when a ...

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER
The Associated Press
HONOLULU — Board members of a foundation a 92-year-old heiress established for Native Hawaiians are calling for a judge to protect her $215 million trust.
The money should go toward helping Native Hawaiians, they said at a news ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii is seeking to find vacation rental owners who aren’t paying taxes by getting Airbnb to turn over rental records.
Hawaii News Now reports the state Department of Taxation filed a court petition last week to serve an administrative subpoena on Airbnb for rental ...

HONOLULU (AP) — United Airlines is planning to invest $200 million in upgrades to Hawaii airports over the next decade, officials said. United CEO Oscar Munoz said the investment will be geared for modernizing the tools and resources employees use at airports in the state, aiming to give ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A report shows that the Hawaii Department of Education’s fraud and ethics hotline has received more than 500 tips since 2016, resulting in one termination case. Hawaii News Now reports that a review prepared for the state education board indicates that 222 of the tips led to ...

HILO, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is on track to reopen several areas later this month after closing in May because of the Kilauea volcano eruption, park officials said. The National Park Service is planning to reopen several trails, roads and popular sites at the Big Island ...